Crocodile hunting wanes but legends live on in DR Congo

Mbandaka, DR Congo: The fearsome slender snouted crocodile can make torch lights explode just with its eyes so the legend goes in the Democratic Re...

Mbandaka, DR Congo: The fearsome slender-snouted crocodile can make torch lights explode just with its eyes -- so the legend goes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Along the Congo River, such myths stay with the Banunu fishermen, even if their traditions and livelihoods are not what they once were.

Michel Koko, known as Lebe, 52, has been a fisherman for 10 years following in his father's footsteps.

His hunting successes include crocodiles of all sizes, caimans, monitor lizards which can grow to more than three metres (yards) long, as well as all kinds of fish.

At 4,700 kilometres (2,920 miles) long, the Congo is the second longest river in Africa after the Nile.